Kęstutis Lančinskas, a former Vilnius police chief and currently the head of the European Union's advisory mission in Ukraine (EUAM), is seeking the job of director at Europe's police agency Europol, several sources have confirmed to BNS.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Vilnius and Warsaw are gradually moving to a new stage of better relations and hopes that Lithuanian politicians will solve the highly contentious issue of the spelling of Polish names in Lithuanian personal documents.

Lithuania's leaders say that Šnipiškių Jewish cemetery would not be affected by the reconstruction of the derelict Sports and Concert Palace in central Vilnius, dismissing the fears voiced by a group of US Congressmen as ungrounded.

This year India is celebrating its 70th Anniversary of Independence and has become one of the most important economic, political and cultural centers in the world. August 15, 1947, the Indian Independence Bill took effect and during the last seventy years since that time a free, democratic country has reached new heights and gained international recognition in various fields such as space technology, physics, medicine, chemistry, literature, music, film industry or sports achievements. Moreover, the country's diverse cultural heritage and spectacular landscape have meant that India is currently one of the most attractive tourist areas.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis hopes to reach full stop in the Friday's negotiations among the Baltic prime ministers in an effort to ensure European support to the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. In his words, if the discussions end in failure, Lithuania will seek to end the discussions and move on.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is meeting with his Latvian counterpart, Inara Murniece, in the Latvian seaside resort of Jūrmala on Thursday to discuss the positions on the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus.

After the Polish media leaked a secret recording of a conversation involving by former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski where he urged "to teach Lithuanians a lesson" in connection to Polish investments in a Mazeikiai refinery, Poland's Energy Minister Krzystof Tchorzewski says it indicates a strong Russian influence in Poland and Lithuania.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis hopes that Warsaw will not ruin relations between the two neighboring states over the proposed illustration for Polish passports, including the Gate of Dawn church in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Center has failed since the start of this year to find a specialist who would be able to calculate the damages caused by the half-century Soviet occupation, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.

A protest action against occupation of Georgia's territories was held in a square in front of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius on Tuesday, attended by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili, Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis and some MPs.

The prime minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, is coming to Lithuania this week to meet with President Dalia Grybauskaitė at the Training Regiment of Great Etmon Jonušas Radvila in Rukla on Friday.

The published secret recordings of fragments of conversations involving Poland's former foreign minister that downgrade Lithuania is a warning for Polish politicians to view the bilateral relations more realistically, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has turned to Russia with a request for legal assistance in the case of violations possibly committed by Judex, a Kaunas-based frozen food company, and actions of veterinary authorities, however, have not received a response for a long time.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Saturday urged the Ukrainian administration to facilitate conditions for former Georgian leader and Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili to defend his right to Ukrainian citizenship in court after he was stripped of his passport by President Petro Poroshenko.

Lithuania's new ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irena Vaišvilaitė has handed letters of credence to the organization's Director General Irina Bokova.